Views : 90,081,054
Genre: Music
Date of upload: Jul 16, 2015 ^^
Rating : 4.854 (39,491/1,043,961 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2022-04-09T21:42:42.654271Z
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
I found this video the week my wife passed away. The similarity between her and the main character I cant even explain how it makes me feel on top of the haunting music and imagery. I always come back here for a good cry. Makes me think my wife went through something like this after she died but I wasn't able to see her because I'm not in that realm. FML
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In my humble opinion, this is a masterpiece of emotional expression. When I watch this, I have thoughts and feelings of existential dread related to the mere moments just before we die. The girls are injured and broken, but they dance... It's symbolic of how we desperately cling to life and are in denial of what death really means, and at the very end she sees the her truth. Destruction of the ego and the acceptance of the unbreakable rule that nothing lasts forever.
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It looks like they used that filming technique where you choreograph to the song at a faster tempo but then in editing, you slow the footage down to match the actual song tempo which creates this uncanny, lagging effect. It works really well with the video, it feels both frantic and delirious, like how it feels to run in a dream
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I love how as the song progresses, the main cheerleader slowly gets more and more "dead" looking. The first half, she only has a few bruises, scuffs and cuts. Once she rejoins her team, she's as dead as the rest of them. It's so bittersweet from her realization that she too has died in the crash. So bittersweet that it literally makes me choke up and want to cry for them.
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I love how the second and third dancer seem to know very well what happened. They have blank expressions, are focused on the dance. The first dancer is shaken, confused and in pain. She dances somewhoat involuntarily as if to establish she's well and alive. The others already know. Specially the third dancer, who pops eerily behind the POV and beckons us to follow her to the final dance.
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@michaelnorris1530
7 years ago
Some Native American traditions believe that when Death comes you have the chance to dance your last dance and Death has no choice but to watch. The wooden Native American looking into the distance is a tell tale sign of this artistic vision.
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